the proletariat
noun
: the lowest social or economic class of a community
especially
: the working class
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Leave this list for the rest of the proletariat to find affordable cabriolets.
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Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 22 June 2024
Karl Marx is bringing economics to the proletariat.
—Kevin Drum, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
Didn’t think so — but other circumstances have the zero-consumption party tactic trickling down to the proletariat.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
He was inspired by the Mexican murals of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco that depict the proletariat worker and wanted to use this format to present the daily grind of women in India.
—Grace Banks, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
What’s so attractive about examining the struggles of the proletariat, the vice of the bourgeois?
—Holly Jones, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
But socio-economic implications aside, the bigger question (for the proletariat and bourgeois alike) is how does the new Popeyes sandwich actually taste?
—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
The upper classes’ ingestion of psychedelics to serve not themselves but the pitiless creative demands of capitalism is no less dehumanizing than the proletariat’s ingestion of crystal meth to increase capitalism’s demand for physical endurance.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 June 2023
The philosophical difference between Maoism and Marxism–Leninism is that the peasantry are the revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather than the proletariat.
—Matt B. Weir, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 22 June 2024
Karl Marx is bringing economics to the proletariat.
—Kevin Drum, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
Didn’t think so — but other circumstances have the zero-consumption party tactic trickling down to the proletariat.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
He was inspired by the Mexican murals of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco that depict the proletariat worker and wanted to use this format to present the daily grind of women in India.
—Grace Banks, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
What’s so attractive about examining the struggles of the proletariat, the vice of the bourgeois?
—Holly Jones, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
But socio-economic implications aside, the bigger question (for the proletariat and bourgeois alike) is how does the new Popeyes sandwich actually taste?
—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
The upper classes’ ingestion of psychedelics to serve not themselves but the pitiless creative demands of capitalism is no less dehumanizing than the proletariat’s ingestion of crystal meth to increase capitalism’s demand for physical endurance.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 June 2023
The philosophical difference between Maoism and Marxism–Leninism is that the peasantry are the revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather than the proletariat.
—Matt B. Weir, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
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